Chapter 9 Flashcards by Alex Sorce | Brainscape

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Equivocating

A

Playing it safe

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Titillate

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Enjoying the “little things”

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Adulate

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Play it way up

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Prescribing

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Deleting the negative

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Obviate

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To use the positive objects to enforce oneself

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Militate

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Playing it wrong

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Maligning

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Playing it dirty

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Condone

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Give benefit of doubt

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Placate

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Change hostility

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Par

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Equal

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Disparage

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Lower someone’s par

Dis–>negative, par–>equal

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Compared

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(Com/com–>together,par–>equal)

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Equivocate

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Yes And no with an equal voice

Aequus/equ, vox–>voice

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Purposeful and deliberate

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Equivocal

Equ, vox–> voice

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Ambiguous

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A statement with one meaning if both meanings

Ambi–>both;equ–>equal

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Disparaging

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Playing it down